Re: [O] The reportmode report does not count the running clock

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Bastien

Subject:

Re: [O] The reportmode report does not count the running clock

Date:

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:37:41 +0100

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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux)

Hi François,
address@hidden (François Pinard) writes:
> Hello, everybody. Let me wish you all that the Year Started Well, and
> will continue that way all along!
Thanks!
> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Note that there is a million variables which are not referred to
>> in the manual - simply too many to mention them all.
>
> A million? You *always* exaggerate! :-)
Well, I counted more than 1070 variables... describing 5 of them
per page would take 214 pages. Not something I'd like to read :)
>> It might be useful to mentions this one, otherwise I would urge
>> restraint. A good way to find unknown variables is described here:
>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-customize.html
>
> The manual should be reference, and should mention all variables. A
> textual search in the manual should yield anything worth finding.
Emacs is The All-Mighty Self-Documenting Editor ;)
Wrt documentation, Emacs is its own reference, by letting you access
everything with C-h v org-*.
The manual is a secondary reference: one that contains the most useful
things to know about Org to use it efficiently. It should cover 100% of
the core feature, and most of the rest -- but there is a trade-off in
this last area. Between readability and completeness.
> However nicely and carefully the customization has been organized, one
> should ideally not have to guess and retry customize branches in hope of
> finding something, or peruse the sources, after having tried the manual.
>
> Do not misread me, I'm not at all saying that there is something wrong
> with the customization, or the availability of the sources! :-)
Another point: there is a lot to do to improve the current docstrings
and the manual. This is a matter of 1) pulling from git, 2) modifying
the file, 3) run `C-x v =' in the buffer, 4) send the patch.
:)
> Maybe an appendix to the manual could be mechanically generated out of
> all customization information, with some Makefile/Emacs machinery for
> keeping it up-to-date? Easier said than done, I know... But I would
> like at least to throw the idea in the field.
This crossed my mind recently.
See this file: http://lumiere.ens.fr/~guerry/u/org.org
which presents all functions/options/variables from some org*el
files.
The code to produce this is here:
http://lumiere.ens.fr/~guerry/u/org-lto.el
This is broken in many respect -- no cleanup is done on the
docstring, and there is nearly no formatting. Also, it does not
export well (see http://lumiere.ens.fr/~guerry/u/org.html)
If you're interested in improving this, please go ahead, I'd be
interested in getting something working along these lines.
Best regards,
--
Bastien